The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Western college, not the Eastern college
any longer, is the best as it is the natural place
for the Western Observation-Disclosures Wiscon-
sin.
Mr. CLEVELAND has always been afraid to
attend g. A. r. gatherings. In 1861 he avoided
them for fear some rebel would assassinate him.
Minneapolis Tribune.
IF what the Providence Journal SAYS is true,
the cause of constitutional prohibition has been
seriously injrr ed the past year by its nominal
supremacy in Rhode Island.-Boston Adver-
tiser.
THE Republican party is the only party that can
or will legislate safely upon the liquor question,
and whoever opposes it because it does not do
at once what must necessarily require many
years for performance is not wise-Cleveland
Leader.
IT is noticed that Ex-Governor St John is
making third-party speeches in Ohio, Repub-
lican State, where prohibition is not issue,
but keeps clear of Texas, where the pending
movement may hurt the Democratic party.
Boston Journal
THE trouble with the Mormons is that they
want to march into the Union three or four
wide enough They must march in pairs-one
husband and wife-after the Christian
fashion. Philadelphia Record.
PENSION examiner has been removed for
speaking disapprovngly of the captured flag
order. Manifesty the President holds that his
personal acknowledgment of the blunder
sufficient, and that his aDpointees should help
him to forget rather than to remember it.
st Louis Gobe-Democrat
THE Democrats of the District of Columbia
ought not to complain of the President for
fusing to appoint one of them postmaster of
Washington, il the best candidate they can find
for the place is man who was indicted for
bribery only a few years ago.-New York Mail
and Express
THE first duty of American patriotism is to
prevent the betrayal of American liberty and
the cheapening of American citizenship, and
there is surer way to accomplish that result
than wisely to regulate immigration. It is
subject which Congress cannot avoid consider
lng and it will find public opinion ripe and
ready for judicious actiou.-Harper's Weekly.
New YORK asked for the custody of General
Grants body. The city is full of millionaires
and yet there is not enough public spirit or patr-
otlsm among them to build a monument.
movement by morning paper to collect 1925,
600 by popular subscription is apparently a fail
ure. It is time that the body was removed to
Washington where the entire Nation can have
an ownership in it.-Philadelphia Times.
THERE appears to be scheme foot at
Washington to reorganze the Pan Electric
Telephone Company, and its stock is said to have
ney general Garlands share of the swag, the
par value being 81, 800 000 worth $3.50 0U0,a nice
little sum for an economical Arkansas lawyer
Garland is a very picturesque feature of "re-
form" administration. -Milwaukee Sentinuel
JOHN SHERMAN has an I'm polite anxiety to be
Endorsed by the Ohio Republican convention
which meets in a fortnight. OF course it is no
to fool around a presidential candidate
if he cannot have the united support of Ohio.
But the trouble with Sherman is that he forgets
that the attempt to raise presidential nomi-
nation winter grown product, never pro-
duces anything more than a thin sickly plant of
very poor stand To vary the agricultural
simile, he is never content to leave his beans in
the ground, but has to pull them too often to
see how they are getting It Is plain that
Ohio is only half ready yet to support Sher-
Ian. and the less said about it the better for
him. Next year it may be different, but not if
ne keeps up this premature campaigning.
-Spring field Republican